I’ve recently moved my whole game library over to Linux and stopped dual booting. Everything runs great on Linux, I just run it through Steam’s Proton layer.

Therein lies the problem. Even my non-Steam games I run through Steam since it’s so convenient with Proton. My experience with using straight up wine, winetricks, Lutris etc. had been much more clunky in comparison and less reliable for getting things running.

While it’s working fine for now, what do I do if I’m offline and Steam decides this is one of those days offline mode doesn’t work? What if I get banned from Steam?

Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?

  • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    16 hours ago

    Yes. However, before they started supporting and prefering linux, and working on proton then getting any game working on linux was a real mess and the average person couldn’t do it for most games.

    Sadly most other games stores in the digital space like gog don’t give a shit about linux, thus there is still no galaxy on linux, nor are their preservation efforts coming to linux for a long time.

    • slauraure@beehaw.orgOP
      1·
      8 hours ago

      For the games that natively run on Linux I don’t see any difference in how they’re preserved. Haven’t encountered anything that doesn’t run on modern systems.

      With that said they could get an easy win by making a Linux version of Galaxy and borrowing Proton to run non-Linux titles.

      • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I have, sadly. On steam once the native linux version of a game wouldn’t run but the windows one would through proton.

        However, yeah I agree, they could so I don’t know why they don’t.

    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah, I set up heroic launcher to play some games from GOG, but achievements didn’t work when I tried it and save sync was kind of buggy. So for GOG just stuck to playing on Windows, since I do want my achievements and time tracked.

      I wish other big platforms tried more in trying help escape Windows instead of just being bystanders and not even bothering with Linux launchers themselves.

      • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Yeah, it’s sad that they don’t, gog really needs to get on it imo. Though have you tried running galaxy through proton?

        I want that too, heck even Epic could easily make their games native to linux with a single button press but they don’t want to.

      • muhyb@programming.dev
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Time tracking and achievements work for me. You might need to update GOG reditrubutables package though Heroic should do it automatically.

          • muhyb@programming.dev
            1·
            6 hours ago

            Yeah, it is. There is even a cloud sync feature now (though it’s still in beta, mostly works). Only thing missing is limiting download speed. Apparently GOG need to do that through gogdl.